The world belongs to the energetic.

Freedom is not the right to do as you please, but the liberty to do as you should.

[on Thoreau:] For not a particle of respect had he to the opinions of any man or body of men, but homage solely to truth itself.

From Washington, proverbially "the city of distances," through all its cities, states, and territories, it is a country of beginnings, of projects, of designs, and expectations.

One more fagot of these adamantine bandages is the new science of Statistics.

Knowledge is when you learn something new every day. Wisdom is when you let something go every day.

Had I but written as many odes in praise of Muhammad and Ali as I have composed for King Mahmud, they would have showered a hundred blessings on me.